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MésignyHaute-Savoie

A town of 804 in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

Is Mésigny a good place to live?

Mésigny is too small to grade: French towns get subject grades from 1,000 residents. The median price paid is €4,177/m². Just 15% of residents are 65 or older.

What makes Mésigny stand out

The 2 things Mésigny does most differently from other towns.

Picked automatically from the data
Mésigny’s outline. No photo of the town is in our collection yet.
Mésigny’s story

No historic monuments in Mésigny

The Culture ministry lists no building in Mésigny as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.

The nearest classé monument is église Saint-Étienne, in Clermont, 4.8 mi away.

Explore the history →

The data

Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Mésigny.

Who lives here

Few people in Mésigny are 65 or over: 15%, below Haute-Savoie’s towns and compared French towns

The under-15s are 19% of the population here. Residents of Mésigny have a median age of 40.6. Nearly a third of adults hold a degree, lower than Haute-Savoie’s towns (37%) yet higher than compared French towns (30%).

40.6median age
MésignyHaute-Savoie medianFrance median

Ages · share of residents

Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education

No diploma11%
CAP or BEP29%
Baccalauréat22%
Higher education32%

Women and men · all residents

50% women, 50% men

About an even split. Median share of women: Haute-Savoie 51.0%, France 51.8%.

Ages and diplomas in Mésigny
MésignyHaute-Savoie medianFrance median
Under 1519%19%17%
15–2410%9.8%11%
25–4426%28%23%
45–6430%26%26%
65+15%17%22%
No diploma11%14%19%
CAP or BEP29%25%26%
Baccalauréat22%19%18%
Higher education32%37%30%

INSEE, census 2023 · Haute-Savoie median and France median: the median of compared communes

Work & commute

Mésigny is better off than Haute-Savoie’s towns or compared French towns: the median disposable income is €35,330 a year per consumption unit

For its 400 residents in work, Mésigny has 50 jobs: 0.2 each. 6.4% of the labour force were unemployed, lower than both Haute-Savoie’s towns (8.1%) and compared French towns (10.1%). At the census, 3.6% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train.

4%walk, cycle or take transit

How working residents got to work · census 2023

Driving92%
Public transport2%
On foot1%
Bicycle1%
Motorbike or scooter1%
50
jobs based in Mésigny, 0.2 per working resident
6.4%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€35,330
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
3%
worked without traveling (at or from home)

Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

Schools

85.0% of candidates passed the brevet at the collège within 5 km, 7 points below the expected rate

Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.

For collège, the closest is 3 mi away.

85.0%passed the brevet

Brevet pass rate · collèges within 5 km

Mésigny85.0%
Median of towns87.5%
SchoolLevelCandidatesPassed, 2025
Collège la MandallazNearest collègeCollègeCollège16485%−7 pts
85.0%
passed the brevet at the collèges, −7 pts against the expected rate
3 mi
to the nearest collège from the town center

Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte

Housing

Renting in Mésigny costs an estimated advertised €16.13/m² a month, against €18.15/m² in Haute-Savoie’s towns and €12.41/m² in compared French towns

Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.

Houses accounted for 74% of sales, apartments for the rest. The market in Mésigny: 31 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.

€4,177/m²median sale price

Median sale price per m² · Jul 2023 to Jun 2026

Mésigny€4,177/m²
Median of towns€2,430/m²
Haute-Savoie median€4,342/m²
€16.13/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€12.85 to €20.25/m² a month)
€19.40/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included

Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

Nearby attractions

Abbaye de Bonlieu and 3 more in and around Mésigny

Heritage and other places to visit in and near Mésigny. Best known first.

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Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata
Keep exploring

Everything we know about Mésigny

14pages on Mésigny

Landmarks

Nothing in Mésigny is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.

Its history page →

Famous people from Mésigny

Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Mésigny yet.

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Mésigny’s neighbors

The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →

All towns in Haute-Savoie →
La Balme-de-SillingySillingyEpagny Metz-TessyPoisyCruseillesVallières-sur-FierLa Balme-de-SillingySillingyEpagny Metz-TessyPoisyCruseillesVallières-sur-FierMésigny
How the neighbors grade
TownPeopleMilesOverallCostSafetyHealth
Mésigny804—————
La Balme-de-Sillingy5,3362B−C−A+B
Sillingy5,8263.2B+DAA
Epagny Metz-Tessy8,9255.5C−D−CC−
Poisy9,2915.6B−D−B+B+
Cruseilles5,3765.8A−C+B−B
Vallières-sur-Fier2,8606.5—C−—B

People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.

About Mésigny

Commune in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Mésigny is a commune of 804 people in the Communauté de communes Fier et Usses. TownRatings compares communes, France’s local unit: each has its own mayor and its own statistics. Its area takes in the town and the countryside around it.

Built from INSEE’s 2026 official geography (COG) and IGN Admin Express boundaries

Population
804 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté de communes Fier et Usses
Département
Haute-Savoie (74)
Région
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Area
2.6 sq mi (6.7 km²)
INSEE code
74179

Sources: INSEE, census 2023 (population, employment, commuting) · INSEE, Filosofi 2023 (income per consumption unit, poverty) · DGFiP, DVF property sales, July 2023 to June 2026 · Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025 · SSMSI, recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Ministry of Education (DEPP), brevet and bac results and value-added indicators, 2025 · INSEE, deaths by commune of residence 2016–2025 and censuses 2012–2023; Eurostat, death rates by age (© European Union); INSEE, BPE 2025 (care homes, emergency and maternity units, GPs, pharmacies); DREES, APL 2024; INSEE, life expectancy by département 2025 (provisional) · INSEE, BPE 2025 and Filosofi 200 m grid (walking distances) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking French towns against each other only, updated November 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).

Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.